Billy Idol Michael Jackson Kim Wilde Ray Parker Jr. The Associates China Crisis Simple Minds Furniture The Cure The Stone Roses Deacon Blue Billy Joel Boris Gardiner In 1960 he joined Richard Ace's band the Rhythm Aces, which also included Delano Stewart, later of the Gaylads.[2][3] With the group he recorded "Angella", and the local hits "A Thousand Teardrops" and "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" (written with his brother Barrington).[2][4] The group split up and by 1963 Gardiner had joined Kes Chin and The Souvenirs as vocalist, and began learning guitar.[2] He went on to join Carlos Malcolm & the Afro Caribs with whom he started playing bass guitar after the original bassist left, and when that band ended he started his own group, the Broncos, named after the Bronco Club where they had a residency.[2] He later played with Byron Lee's Dragonaires. Edelweiss
